Engineer - Customer Engineering

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

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Software Applications Engineering

This position, part of the Customer Engineering (CE) organization supporting the Auto Telematics business, focuses on platform software development across Linux BSP—including peripheral interface drivers (PCIe, USB, I2C, SPI, UART), device security, boot, memory management (heap/stack profiling), system performance tuning, and crash stability analysis—offering hands‑on exposure to Qualcomm’s advanced chipset solutions, early‑stage system software, and collaboration with global OEMs, with occasional travel for onsite customer support and cross‑site engineering engagements.

Candidate in this role will support a wide range of customer/partner activities from product design, SW engineering to commercialization. This includes training, documentation, assisting customers in debugging, optimizing, and integrating software.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering and/or Computer Science and/or Electrical Engineering and 4+ years of experience
• Strong C/C++ programming experience
• Generic software programming skill and tool knowledge – python, software version control system
• Strong knowledge of Embedded OS (Kernel architecture, Drivers, OS services – heap, memory and crash debugging)
• Knowledge of multimedia, networking, peripherals, connectivity areas
• Experience in design and development of Linux kernel, device driver, Bootloaders, BSPs areas
• Strong Debugging skills on generic processors
• Knowledge of OS/system performance profiling and optimization techniques a plus

• Master's, Computer Engineering and/or Computer Science and/or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience 3+ years of experience
• Experience in software design and development for software layers found in So Cs
• Solid knowledge of ARMv8 and ARMv9 architecture and its extensions
• Knowledge of processor architecture and cache subsystem
• Knowledge of Qualcomm modem chipset
• Strong team player

Since this position requires continual interaction with Qualcomm customers, the candidate must have strong communication, written & interpersonal skills, high motivation, the ability to learn quickly. Must be a self‑starter.

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$90,700.00 - $

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation  also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales‑incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus).

In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and r recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

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